bro it’s LIT! i hope Juliana inherited a couple of her father’s… skills? lol anyway going by the preview if she’s actually going to the house, the roles inverted and now she’s the one out here ready to risk it all for Val

…I’ll save you the lecture about how Juls has risked a lot already and nobody would ask her to risk her LIFE for this, lol, and just say that I underestimated the show again. I totally didn’t expect the two of them to be in the thick of things like this. She picked up a VIDEO CALL. IN THE MIDDLE. OF. A. KIDNAPPING.

I always thought val would be the one to break the pact since she’s always so unapologetic in going after what she wants and she has such a sheltered life until recently. This show brings so many surprises

I thought so too. She was under so much pressure, wasn’t answering the phone calls.

But I think it kind of couldn’t be her? The romance they’re selling is so epic and so star-crossed, her caving because of pressure just wouldn’t work. Of course that would be understandable in real life but in this story, it would come across as her not loving Juls enough. Instead, it broke because Juls loves her too much.

Juls was harsh to Val. Didn’t think about Vals feelings. Only thinking about herself and how her mom was going to react. I am dissapointed

That is not at all how I read it. She was thinking about Val more than anything else. 

Nothing’s changed regarding her mother, she could just continue to not tell her. There’s no reason to break up because of that. Juls only brought it up as a reason Val could accept, since “I’m doing it for you” would never fly.

The whole framing, of the previous episodes and this one and this specific conversation, are making it much more about Juls’s issues with her place in Val’s life and the disruption she’s causing to it than anything else. 

To put it simply, everyone around her, everyone who has any kind of remotely positive interest in Val or her, has said they won’t last, that she’s bringing trouble to Val. She just had Val’s sister show up and say she’s destroying Val’s life and then found out she couldn’t even get in the car. That. Would. Be. Mortifying. Would she want Val to go through that? For her? Tbh, I don’t think she’s actually correct in making this decision because it’s not up to her to make, it’s Val’s. But she thinks she’s not worth it. That’s the biggest tragedy here and the takeaway. That the people around them have put them in this position. 

I only see praises for Maca’s acting but Barbara is doing an amazing job too, they’re an amazing team. In Spanish the word we use when 2 actors/actress bring the best of them when they’re together is “replica” if they didn’t give each other this amazing replica Juliantina wouldn’t be as amazing as it is.

Oh, I hope I’ve praised both and not singled out one. Maca might seem to get more of it because Val’s so open and expressive, those heart eyes are very remarkable, but this ship really could not work without both of them doing exactly what they’re doing. Barbara’s job is equally difficult, to show emotion with much less expression allowed, Juls is supposed to be so much more closed off, and that makes the moments when she does lower her guard that much more amazing.

It’s so nice that there’s an actual word for it, “replica”. 🙂 They definitely both deserve all the praise for this. My friend started watching the other night and even though she’s already heard me say natural! organic! open! a million times, she’s still so stunned and telling me about it. 😀 Which I love, to be clear. Their dynamic is one of those things that pops up so rarely.

The “break up” (they weren’t even official yet lol) was totally in character coming from Juls. Remember all those episodes before that whenever someone questioned their closeness and how Val is innocent and good and was in danger with Juls, Juls always thought about stepping back so Val could have her normal life again. Detective Montilla, Silvina, Lucho, now Eva. too many people reminding Juls of the chaos she brings to Vals life

Exactly. Exactly! 

The whole world’s conspiring against them, she’s humiliated, she knows she’ll definitely cause a further rift between Val and Eva if she stays, Val’s life will be upended and she doesn’t even feel like she’s worth it. Not when people who love Val tell her she’s not enough, not when her own mom tells her she’s not enough, that a rich person like Val would inevitably tire of her. So to keep all this going when it’ll only hurt Val? Possibly even physically! Let’s not forget THAT side of things either.